112, Lot: 298. Estimate $75. Sold for $49. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANONYMOUS, Class A3. Circa 976-1035 AD. Æ Follis (26mm, 7.91 gm). Constantinople mint. +[EMMA] NOVHL, IC-XC across field, facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction, holding Gospels; nimbus with rectangle in arms of cross / +IhSuS XRISTuS [b]ASILEu' [b]ASILE' in four lines; ornament above and below. DOC III A2.47; SB 1818. VF, blue-green patina.